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Red Meat and Heart Disease: Is Saturated Fat Really to Blame?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 715,000 people in the U.S. suffer from a heart attack each year. High blood sugar, smoking and high blood pressure are all known to contribute to the possibility of heart disease and heart attacks. Eating large quantities of red meat also increases your risk of heart disease because it contains high levels of cholesterol and saturated fat – right? While that may be at least partially true, researchers from Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic say that their new study may have identified the truer culprit. According to their study, the primary component in red meat that influences heart disease risk may be l-carnitine, a nutrient also readily available in dietary supplements. What is l-carnitine, and why are people taking it in supplement form if it increases the risk of developing heart disease.
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Half-Million Kids Have Too Much Lead in Blood
A new study by the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds that over half a million U.S. children have abnormally high levels of lead in their blood. According to the study, which was conducted between 2007 and 2010, approximately 535,000 kids between the ages of 1 and 5 had at least 5 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood. Five mg/dl is the recommended maximum limit for blood lead content. The study indicates that about 2.6% of kids in the 1 to 5 age group are exposed to too much lead. Even low levels of lead in a child’s blood can cause serious physical and mental health issues, including behavioral problems, difficulty paying attention and lower IQ scores. According to the researchers behind the study, any level of lead exposure is too much, especially for a child.
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Generic Drug Prices Vary Wildly, Study Finds
According to the FDA, generic drugs are identical to their more expensive name-brand counterparts. However, if you opt for generics when given a prescription by your doctor, you could be doing serious unnecessary harm to your wallet if you don’t shop around at a few pharmacies first, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Consumer Reports, looked at the cost of a one-month supply of five different popular drugs at over 200 pharmacies across the country. All of the drugs involved in the study had only recently gone generic. Shockingly, the researchers found that the lowest-priced pharmacies were about 447% cheaper than the most expensive pharmacies. Lisa Gill, who regularly covers prescription drugs for Consumer Reports, said that “irrational pricing” is common in the immediate wake of a prescription drug going generic.
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CDC: Meals for Toddlers are Too Salty
A new study conducted by the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds that the majority of packaged meals designed for toddlers exceed the recommended toddler salt intake. Over 1,100 meals were examined in the study. Of these, almost 75% had excessive levels of salt. At worst, the meals had up to 630 mg of sodium. The American Heart Association recommends that children receive no more than 1,500 mg of sodium over the course of an entire day. Excessive sodium intake in children can lead to high blood pressure, just as it does in adults. If a child is already overweight, the risk for developing hypertension will skyrocket with the over-consumption of salt. Limiting the number of processed and packaged foods given to toddlers might be the first step towards preventing high blood pressure in young children.
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The Psychological Dangers of False Positive Mammograms
A new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark indicates that false positive mammograms can inflict lasting psychological damage on women, even when women later find that they actually don’t have breast cancer. In terms of values, calmness and other identifiers of mental well-being, women in the trial who were given a false alarm following a mammogram scored about the same six months after the mammogram as women who indeed had cancer. The researchers say their study is evidence that false positive mammograms are anything but harmless, even when women receive positive news eventually. According to the American Cancer Society, around 232,570 invasive cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States. It is the most common form of cancer in women.
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